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Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 10 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Most bloated apps like outlook and teams etc regularly use nearly a gig of ram each in my experience. Brutal.

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[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I have single browser tabs that regularly suck down a whole gig. (And they still have input lag).

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Ya that depends on the content too and what bullshit they load on the background. In this context, these days I look at tabs as apps lol

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